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The SHDM wishes to inform you that the Société d’habitation Québec (SHQ) has set up a financial assistance program for tenants to pay their rent in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this program is to temporarily support tenants who do not have enough cash to pay their May and/or June rent, in whole or in part, due to the loss of their job, stoppage of work or reduction in the number of hours worked in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

This program applies to the entire territory of Québec, with the exception of Indian reserves. It allows tenants to take out an interest-free loan for a maximum fixed amount of $1,500, enabling them to pay their May and/or June 2020 rent, in whole or in part.

The financial assistance is paid directly to landlords.

Information on this program may be found on the SHQ website.

Hopefully this program will help some of our tenants.

Take care of yourself.

In French only

Cher partenaire,

La Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) suit de près l’évolution de la situation en lien avec le COVID-19. Afin de s’adapter rapidement à la situation, la SHDM souhaite vous avisez que les paiements seront maintenant effectués par le biais de versements électroniques seulement. Pour adhérer à ce nouveau mode de paiement, il vous suffit de nous faire parvenir par courriel les documents suivants :

• Une lettre de l’entreprise (par courriel)
• Un spécimen de chèque ou attestation du compte de votre institution financière

Les informations suivantes doivent être indiquées sur la lettre que vous nous transmettrez :

En-tête de lettre

• En-tête officiel de l’entreprise incluant nom, adresse et numéro de téléphone de l’entreprise

Coordonnées bancaires

• Nom et numéro de l’institution financière
• Nom, adresse et numéro de succursale (no de transit)
• Numéro de compte bancaire

Adresse courriel

• Adresse courriel pour la transmission de l’avis de paiement

Contact

• Nom et coordonnées d’un contact de l’entreprise

Signature

• Nom, titre, numéro de téléphone et signature d’une personne autorisée de l’entreprise

Les dépôts directs peuvent être effectués seulement dans une institution financière canadienne et en dollars canadiens. Veuillez nous faire parvenir toute demande d’information et d’adhésion, à l’adresse courriel suivante : [email protected] et spécifier « Paiement électronique » dans l’objet de votre envoi.

Transmission des factures

Nous vous demandons également de nous transmettre les factures par courriel seulement. Vous pouvez les transmettre à la même adresse : [email protected]

Nous vous remercions de votre compréhension et de votre collaboration au bien-être collectif. Toute notre équipe des finances est disponible pour vous accompagner dans cette période d’incertitude. Nous vous invitons à communiquer avec nous à l’adresse courriel ci-dessus pour toute question ou information additionnelle.

L’équipe des finances

Please note that we have closed our offices, but we are maintaining most of our operations as we need to provide essential services to our tenants. Our team is therefore always available to answer your questions. You may call us at 514 380-7436 or send us an email at [email protected].

As a precautionary measure, only service requests considered urgent or essential will be handled by our building attendants. In addition, before our employees enter your apartment, you will have to answer a series of questions related to COVID-19 to make sure that they can safely respond to your request.

At the present time, we are all facing extraordinary circumstances that are beyond our control. We are aware of the challenges that we face individually and collectively to ensure everyone’s health and safety.

In view of the Government’s announcement of the payment of Employment Insurance around April 6, we wish to inform you that the SHDM will show understanding for late rent payments.

In our collective effort to minimize the risks of spreading COVID-19, we advise you to make payments online or by pre-authorized withdrawals (direct debits). If you are unable to do so, we advise you to make payments by cheque to be sent to us at our Place Dupuis offices at 800 boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, Suite 2200, Montréal, Québec H2L 4L8.

Like all organizations, the SHDM is closely monitoring the developments of the Coronavirus in order to adapt our decisions to government guidelines and best prevention practices. The health and safety of our clients and employees is a top priority.

With our prevention objective in mind, we have increased the frequency of maintenance in the common areas of our buildings. We have implemented other measures in our Autonomies + buildings that accommodate people over the age of 55 by closing community rooms and asking tenants to limit visits.

In addition, in order to limit the risks of spreading the virus and to protect our clients and employees, we have decided to give priority to contacts by telephone. For this purpose, we have temporarily closed the SHDM main office reception desk (800 de Maisonneuve East) and the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Côte-des-Neiges offices.

In the coming days, and with the same objective in mind, we will handle only urgent or essential requests for service.

We thank you for your understanding and for helping us to keep everyone healthy.

The Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) announced today the sale of its property located at 1685, 1687, 1689, 1691 and 1693, avenue de l’Église, in the Sud-Ouest Borough, to the Habitat for Humanity Québec charitable organization.

In the summer of 2019, the SHDM launched a public call for proposals to community organizations in order to sell the vacant building on avenue de l’Église. The objective was to preserve the affordable housing mission of this 3-storey building, particularly since such housing is in short supply in Montreal.

« The SHDM is delighted with this new partnership with Habitat for Humanity Québec. This sale will become an inspiring project that will provide five families with reasonable access to home ownership, » stated Nancy Shoiry, Managing Director of the SHDM.

Habitat for Humanity Québec’s mission is to mobilize volunteers and donors in order to build affordable properties and promote the purchase of a home as a means of ending the cycle of poverty, » explained Clévis Cabrera of Habitat for Humanity Québec. “The acquisition of the building owned by the SHDM will enable us to pursue this mission by offering low-income Québec families genuine access to home ownership. »

About the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal
Whether for affordable housing, social mix, community-based projects, large cultural and institutional developments, revitalization of destructured neighbourhoods or the enhancement of heritage buildings, the SHDM is a key player in creating structuring real estate development projects. As an agency of Ville de Montréal, the SHDM is also a responsible manager that administers and maintains a real estate portfolio that is both large and diversified, and is one of Montréal’s greatest assets.

About Habitat for Humanity Québec
Habitat for Humanity is the only charitable organization in the country that builds affordable homes and makes it possible to save 70% of the interest on financing for low-income Québec families so that they can become homeowners. Habitat for Humanity Québec is affiliated with Habitat for Humanity Canada and a member of the Habitat for Humanity International network, with which it shares the vision of a world where everyone should have access to safe, decent housing. Sensitive to the needs of diverse communities, Habitat for Humanity Québec’s objective is to always be inclusive in carrying out Habitat projects for all families who want to break the cycle of poverty without racial, ethnic, religious or other discrimination.

It is with great pride that the teams involved in the design and construction of the Îlot Balmoral (in Montreal’s Place des Festivals) reacted upon learning that the project is among the finalists in the Best Mixed-Use Development category of the prestigious international competition organized by MIPIM (Marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier), the world’s premier real estate market event. The competition evaluates projects on architectural signature, innovation, environmental characteristics and integration into their surroundings.

The Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM), owner and developer for the project, entrusted architecture firm Provencher_Roy with the mandate to design an iconic cultural building to complete the Place des Festivals. Thanks to its tenants the National Film Board of Canada and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi’s École des arts numériques, de l’animation et du design (UQAC NAD), the Îlot Balmoral has become the showcase for cinema and digital arts in the Quartier des spectacles.

Nancy Shoiry, executive director of the SHDM: “From the start, the SHDM wanted a remarkable, ambitious project that embodies Montreal’s creative spirit and integrates the strictest standards in ecological responsibility. Our partners at Provencher_Roy met the challenge with talent, and we are proud that Îlot Balmoral distinguishes itself in international competitions. I would add that, as a paramunicipal entity, we are also proud to have achieved this exceptional building and to have it be a part of our wide real estate portfolio.”

Claude Provencher, senior partner and co-founder of Provencher_Roy: “To have our work recognized by observers who are exposed to the best projects the world has to offer is always a source of tremendous pride. With the SHDM’s vision and ambition on our side, we developed an architectural concept for Îlot Balmoral that transforms the urban landscape while being ecologically responsible, appealing to the public and rewarding for the organizations it hosts. Our thoughts at this time also turn to our late colleague Eugenio Carelli, who made a large contribution, with the team, to the project’s success and who would have been proud of this recognition.”

With its exceptional visual appeal, the Îlot Balmoral contributes to the glittering character of the Place des Festivals, a place of gathering and culture. An immense oblique “fault line,” in a bright red hue, divides the building  into two distinct forms, revealing a full-height atrium that allows natural light in to generously illuminate the suspended walkways connecting the two volumes. The Îlot’s lobby was designed with pedestrians in mind and will make it possible for them to easily cross this public space, whose lower floors are glazed on three sides.

The Îlot Balmoral is a candidate for LEED-NC Gold certification. It was designed and built according to the principles of sustainable development, favouring energy efficiency and air quality and featuring a green roof and installations conducive to the use of active modes of transportation and clean forms of energy.

The Îlot Balmoral distinguished itself in a highly competitive field of 228 quality projects from 45 countries. The winners of the 2020 edition of this prestigious real estate competition will be announced during the annual meeting of the Marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier (MIPIM), to be held March 10 through 13, 2020 in Cannes, France. For a complete list of finalists in all categories, click here.

From the excavation phase to the moving in of the tenants, view a video of the impressive evolution over the years of the work site located at the northwest corner of the Place des Festivals.